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John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection

The John Carter Brown Library's collection of books printed in Spanish America is among the finest in the world. In some areas, the collections are unmatched and include works found nowhere else. The Library has the largest collection in the world of books printed in Spanish America as a whole prior to ca. 1820, over 7,000 titles, encompassing the output of presses in Mexico, Peru, Central America, Argentina, Chile, and elsewhere. The remaining Spanish American presses represented in the JCB's collection include some of the rarest books printed in the Americas: those coming from the Jesuit missions of Paraguay in the early eighteenth century. Of the eight extant titles printed in the missions, the JCB owns six, more than any other library in the world. Of the 14 books in our Ecuador collection (as of 2012) all but two are unique copies, held nowhere else. Likewise of our collections of Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican, and Bolivian imprints, the majority can be found only at the JCB.

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American Libraries
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Topics & Subjects
2,992
CSAIP
915
Broadsides, etc
720
Argentine newspapers
580
Imprint 1815
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Imprint 1812
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Imprint 1821
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John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
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John Carter Brown Library
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John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
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John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
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John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Gazeta Collection
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ramírez, francisco, 1786-1821
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peru (viceroyalty)
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spain
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buenos aires (argentina). cabildo
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río de la plata (viceroyalty)
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Spanish
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Latin
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Nahuatl
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Topics: CSAIP, Indians of South America, Imprint 1822
Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: Rodríguez Erdoiza, Carlos, 1782-1839, CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1825
20 p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Year of publication appears before printer statement on title page
Topics: CSAIP, Guilds, Bread industry, Imprint 1835
John Carter Brown Library - Puerto Rico Collection
by Abbad y Lasierra, Iñigo, 1745-1813; Acosta, José J. (José Julián), 1825-1892
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Signatures: pi⁶ 1-63⁴ 64² (pi2, pi6 versos blank)
Topic: Imprint 1866
[2], 46, [4] p. ;|c20 cm. (4to) Reprint; originally published: Madrid : Imprenta de Dobledo, 1808?
Topics: CSAIP, Imprint 1809
Caption title
Topics: Acosta, Ambrosio, CSAIP, Imprint 1827
[3], 4, 6-7, 9-12, [1] leaves ; 19 cm. (4to) Author is identified as Fr. Blas de Acosta in the approbation on leaf [2] recto
Topics: Zarate, Gabriel de, d. 1638, Catholic Church, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1637
[3], 12 leaves ; 19 cm. (4to) Dated and signed on leaf [3] verso: 10. de diziembre 1637. Fr. Blas de Acosta
Topics: Raga, Luis de la, Election sermons, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1637
[3], 16 leaves ;19 cm. (4to) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Sermons, Imprint 1643
16 leaves ;19 cm. (4to) Signatures: A-D (A1 verso blank)
Topics: Processions, Religious, Imprint 1643
John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
by Acuña, Francisco de, d.1815
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Title from caption and beginning of text
Topic: Imprint 1807
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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A customs receipt issued to Eduardo Garcia of Leona, El Salvador
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Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Administración Principal de Alcabalas de San Salvador; Bromsen, Maury. fmo RIBRL
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Title and statement of responsibility from caption. Statement of responsibility precedes title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Blank forms, Customs administration, Imprint 18--
232, [8] p. ;|c16 cm. (8vo) Privileges dated: Seville, 1693, suggesting that this work is a reprint of the Madrid, 1693 edition
Topic: Imprint 1752
Caption title
Topics: Agote, Justo Pastor, CSAIP, Freedom of the press, Church and state, Imprint 1827
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in red morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1686
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Topics: Pueyrredón, Juan Martín, 1777-1850, CSAIP, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in black morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1712
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
by Aguilar, Luis Antonio de , active 1707
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In the John Carter Brown Library copy, line three of the first numbered leaf has a printed papel label enmendation that reads "Vn" to correct the printed error beneath it that reads "duo"
Topic: Imprint 1707
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
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Topics: Guiridi y Alcocer, José Miguel, 1763-1828, Catholic Church, Lawyers, Priests, Imprint 1817
[2], 57, [5] leaves ;|c30 cm. (fol.) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: CSAIP, Mapuche Indians, Imprint 1647
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco
Topic: Imprint 1694
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in dark blue morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1697
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Topics: Carrasco, Pedro, CSAIP, Imprint 1823
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
texts
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[5], 10 leaves bcoat of arms ;19 cm. (4to) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: Cofradía del Santo Crucifijo (Lima, Peru), Cofradías (Latin America), Holy Cross, Sermons,...
1 sheet ([1] p.) ;|c30 x 42 cm Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1796
28 p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Regarding the flight of a Carmelite nun from her convent
Topics: Gutiérrez, Dominga, sor, Dominican Nuns of the Second Order of Perpetual Adoration, CSAIP, Imprint...
Title from caption and text
Topics: Dissertations, Academic, Broadsides, etc, Thesis defense announcements, Imprint 1809
Source: folio
[2], 36 p. ;|c23 cm. (4to) Printer precedes place and date of publication on title page
Topics: Catholic Church. Diocese of Santiago (Chile). Synod (1763), Catholic Church. Diocese of Santiago...
[6], 30 p. ;|c23 cm. (4to) Signatures: pi1 [par.]² [A]² B-G² H² (-H2) (pi1, [par.]2 versos blank)
Topics: Catholic Church. Province of Lima, CSAIP, Imprint 1772
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Topics: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, CSAIP, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Imprint 1808
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
by Alegre, Francisco Javier, 1729-1788. Historia de la Compañía de Jesús en Nueva España
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Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Florencio Gavito bookplate on front pastedown, Bruce McKinney bookplate on back pastedown
Topic: Imprint 1816
26, [2] p. ;|c21 cm. (4to) Year of publication appears before printer statement on title page
Topics: CSAIP, Imprint 1820
Signatures: [pi]⁴ (-[pi] 4) A-H⁴ I² (-I2)
Topics: Guerra, García, d. 1612, Imprint 1613
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Alemán, Mateo, 1547-1614?
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Signatures: pi⁴ A-Y⁴ (Y4 blank)
Topic: Spanish language
John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1717
Title from caption and text
Topics: Dissertations, Academic, Broadsides, etc, Thesis defense announcements, Imprint 1817
Source: folio
Caption title
Topics: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Imprint 1809
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Topic: Imprint 1809
Caption title
Topics: Catholic Church, CSAIP, Church and state, Imprint 1822
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
by Almeyda, Maestro; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lima (Peru) Cabildo Eclesiástico
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[4] p. (p. [3-4] blank) ;|c30 cm. (fol.) In support of Sebastián de Bustamante y Loyola's solicitud of appointment to a canoncy
Topics: Bustamante y Loyola, Sebastián de, d. 1649, CSAIP, Clergy, Imprint 1640
[7], 15 leaves ;|c21 cm. (4to) Signatures: A-E F²
Topic: Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, ca. 1507-1584; Campano da Novara. Tractatus de sphera
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American references, p. 370-371
Topics: Science, Astronomy, Imprint 1557
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, ca. 1507-1584
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First manual on marriage according to the laws of the Catholic Church written in the New World, also treating matrimonial customs of the Indians of Mexico
Topics: Marriage, Marriage (Canon law), Indians of Mexico
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, ca. 1507-1584
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Colophon: Ad dei magni gloriam explicitum fuit opus tertio idus Iulii [13 July] anno. 1554
Topics: Philosophy, Logic, Imprint 1554
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, ca. 1507-1584; Aristotle; Aristotle. Categoriae. Latin; Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. Isagoge. Latin
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Colophon: Liber hic finitus fuit ... nonis Octobris [7 Oct.], anno ... 1554
Topics: Philosophy, Logic, Imprint 1554
[28] p. ;|c20 cm. (4to) Caption title
Topics: Mercedarians. Third Order, CSAIP, Imprint 1770
[48] p. ;|c29 cm. (fol.) Spanish text with Latin quotations
Topics: CSAIP, Earthquakes, Mortgages, Disaster relief, Imprint 1747
John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in brown morocco with marbled boards
Topic: Imprint 1694
In Spanish and Latin
Topics: Catholic Church, CSAIP, Sacraments (Liturgy), Imprint 1756
Caption title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1816
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820; Medina, Victor. fmo RPJCB; American Antiquarian Society. fmo RPJCB
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Vol. 2-3 dated 1819; vol. 4 in 1820
Topics: CSAIP, Law, Law, Law, Imprint 1818, Imprint 1819, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library - Cuba Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820
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Originally published: Guatemala, 1818
Topics: Law, Law, Imprint 1834
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820; Medina, Victor. fmo RPJCB; American Antiquarian Society. fmo RPJCB
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Vol. 2-3 dated 1819; vol. 4 in 1820
Topics: CSAIP, Law, Law, Law, Imprint 1818, Imprint 1819, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820; Medina, Victor. fmo RPJCB; American Antiquarian Society. fmo RPJCB
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Vol. 2-3 dated 1819; vol. 4 in 1820
Topics: CSAIP, Law, Law, Law, Imprint 1818, Imprint 1819, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library - Cuba Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820
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Originally published: Guatemala, 1818
Topics: Law, Law, Imprint 1834
John Carter Brown Library - Guatemala Collection
by Alvarez, José María, 1777-1820; Medina, Victor. fmo RPJCB; American Antiquarian Society. fmo RPJCB
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Vol. 2-3 dated 1819; vol. 4 in 1820
Topics: CSAIP, Law, Law, Law, Imprint 1818, Imprint 1819, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library - Uruguay Collection
texts
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Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1814
John Carter Brown Library - Chile Collection
texts
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Caption title
Topics: CSAIP, Imprint 1827
Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1814
[4], 79, [1], 80-237, [8], [96] p., [1] folded leaf of plates :|bill. ;|c20 cm. (4to) Assigned a publication date of 1757 by Vargas Ugarte and Medina on the basis of the dates of one of the approvals (Enero 7. de 1757) and one of the licenses (Enero 8. de 1757)
Topics: Maria Anna Josefa, Queen, consort of John V, King of Portugal, 1683-1754, CSAIP, Sermons, Funeral...
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
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1 sheet ([2] p.) :|bill. ;|c72 x 45 cm Caption title
Topics: Misti Volcano (Peru), Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1878
John Carter Brown Library - Cuba Collection
by Alzuru, Juan Francisco de, active 1814-1820; Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833; Spain. Sovereign (1814-1833 : Ferdinand VII)
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At head of title page: A Fernando VII
Topics: Spain. Cortes (1810-1813), Constitutional history, Imprint 1820
Caption title
Topics: Zavaleta, Mariano, CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1820
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
by Amante de los sabios y virtuosos, y enemigo de los bajos y falsos calumniadores; Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB
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8 p. ;|c20 cm. (8vo) Signed on p. 8: El amante de los sabios y virtuosos, y enemigo de los bajos y falsos calumniadores
Topics: Figueiredo, António Pereira de, 1725-1797, CSAIP, Church and state, Imprint 1833
John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
by Amante del pueblo y de la felicidad de la causa
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Topics: Funes, Gregorio, 1749-1829, Continuacion al Num. 4 del Censor, Censor (Buenos Aires, Argentina :...
John Carter Brown Library - Chile Collection
by Amantes del Orden
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Caption title
Topics: Estanqueros (Chile), CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Imprint 1829
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
by Amat y Junient, Manuel de, 1707-1782; Rodríguez, José M. fmo RPJCB
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[4], 11, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.) Place and year of publication from content. Dated on p. 11: Septiembre 19 de 1761
Topics: Amat y Junient, Manuel de, 1707-1782, CSAIP, Imprint 1761
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v.1, p. 293-294 wanting; supplied in facsimile in John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file; v.3 wanting
Topic: Imprint 1696
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v.1, p. 293-294 wanting; supplied in facsimile in John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file; v.3 wanting
Topic: Imprint 1696
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: American Antiquarian Society: information from bibliographical file
Topic: Imprint 1703
Furlong attributes this work to Gregorio Funes
Topic: Imprint 1811
Title from caption and beginning of text
Topics: Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1784-1833, CSAIP, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Imprint 1808